I did my Foundation Course in Pain Management on Thursday. It was a three hour session run by a senior Physiotherapist and a senior Occupational Therapist. It was very interesting. First they explained how the pain system works, what is acute pain, what is chronic pain, etc and what it's effects on people physically and emotionally can be. They also gave us loads of handouts to take away with us as there was so much info they said we wouldn't remember it all.
At the end of our session, some of us were given brown envelopes. Apparently the Clinical psychologist who had done the initial assessment as to whom the Foundation Course would suit also recommended those she felt would benefit from a longer course. I was one selected so in my envelope was a rundown of what the longer course covered and an opt-in form if i wanted to do it. I decided I would.
The next course covers pacing, goal setting, medication, relaxation, stress control and exercise plus ways of accomplishing tasks that give us difficulty. It is to be run, in the main, by the two ladies who presented the Foundation course. I really took to them as they were just so encouraging and humorous.
There is a wait for this course so what this space.
Lovely to know there are achievable goals to look forward to reaching. Glad you were picked for the long course. They are listening to you at last.
ReplyDeleteI really did feel they were listening to all of us there. Several of us commented on how frustrated some of the Consultants had left us feeling. The two ladies running the session didn't comment as such but do say that none of us had created the pain and pain is a very complex subject even the experts didn't really understand..
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